EMS Today

In this episode, Raphael and Dov discuss the recent wave of fatal and non-fatal terror attacks in Israel from the viewpoint of a first responder. How do first responders deal with scene safety? How do they treat patients under fire? What is the emotional and psychological fallout of responding to these attacks on a regular basis? We go over tips on how to cope with responding to terror attacks and...

Please join us for a discussion on finding a common language in Mobile Medicine. Keep the conversation going by using  #JEMSTalk .

Eric Chase talks with Dr. Michael Smith, an academic hospitalist and improvisor. They talk about the benefits of improv in the medical and public safety professions, building relational interactions vs. transactional interactions and much more.

Will Chapleau, Greg Chapman and Michael Hunter speak at JEMS Con.

Douglass Randell and Orlando Jordan talk at JEMS Con.

Steve Wirth does a live podcast at JEMS Con.

In this third and final installment covering our operations assisting refugees at the Ukrainian border, Dov and Raphael are joined by Linor Attias, a United Hatzalah EMT and one of the mission leaders of Operation Orange Wings. Linor also serves as an emergency management specialist at the Israeli Ministry of Justice and was uniquely suited to be one of the co-leaders of the medical and humanitari...

In this episode, Dov and Raphael go behind the scene of some of United Hatzalah's black ops rescue operations that have been taking place inside Ukraine as part of Operation Orange Wings. The EMS organization, which took upon itself the task of providing medical care and humanitarian aid to refugees on the Ukrainian border in Moldova, could not sit idly by and allow people with severe medical cond...

Join us for a discussion on education in mobile medicine. Keep the conversation going by using #JEMSTalk. Participants Jonathon Feit, MBA, MA Co-Founder & Chief Executive Beyond Lucid Technologies, Inc. Mike Touchstone, BSHS, FACPE Fire Paramedic Deputy Chief, EMS Operations (Retired) Philadelphia (PA) Fire Department Past President, National EMS Management Association

In today's episode, Dov and Raphael come to you from the Ukrainian border with Moldova, where United Hatzalah has been undertaking a massive humanitarian and medical relief mission entitled Operation Orange Wings. The mission, which involved more than 150 EMS personnel thus far, has included providing humanitarian aid and medical care to tens of thousands of refugees crossing the border into Moldo...

Eric Chase speaks with Prescott (AZ) Fire Chief Holger Durre, who's the operations advisor for the All Clear Foundation. They discuss the support individuals, agencies and families receive when life gets tough and crises need to be addressed.

Hear about Alberto Uscanga’s journey to become a firefighter-paramedic through mentorship.

In this episode, we talk about the population that accounts for the majority of EMS calls related to illness – the elderly. Whether the patient has loved ones by their side or is living alone or in a long-term care facility, this population grouping often requires an extra level of care. We'll discuss tips and ideas on how to provide that, even though these calls are often not the “heroic” ones th...

Here's a great conversation with Jason Patton, creator of Fire Department Chronicles. He and host Eric Chase talk about taking care of yourself and others.

You can use this presentation to evaluate if your department meets education and training requirements. 

Susan Bailey, the director of the Louisiana Bureau of EMS, talks about leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion, education, family, service to others and more.

Mobile integrated health is, at its core, a data program. And that’s how you’ll get paid for it. At the 2021 Atrium Health Community Paramedicine Conference in Cherokee, NC, Jonathon Feit of Beyond Lucid Technologies lays out four ways to maximize reimbursement for your MIH/CP program.

Welcome to Real Life Rescues, a podcast that goes behind the scenes and takes an in-depth look into the operational and personal accounts of EMS first responders from Israel’s largest fully volunteer EMS provider United Hatzalah. The podcast is hosted by EMT-P (Paramedic) Dov Maisel and EMT-B (EMT) Raphael Poch. In today’s episode, we’ll be sharing some of the more dramatic, hilarious and wacky st...

Sponsored by: MEDLITE® First in First Response McKee Somerville shares her story about insecurities about entering EMS later in life, balancing motherhood, going through a divorce and pausing and restarting paramedic school. "It was really hard when the personal side would come in. I wasn't home enough... I was being judged from family and close friends," Somerville said. "Being away from the kids...

Sponsored by: MEDLITE® First in First Response Newly retired San Francisco (CA) Fire Department Lt. Cynthia Ricker reflects on her 27-year career and talks about why she chose to retire. She explores how she sustained a long career with calls she still carries. "I made a pact with myself that if I needed help, I would get it outside of the fire department,” Ricker said.

Sponsored by: MEDLITE® First in First Response Jonathon Feit and James McLaughlin talk about the real and opportunity costs of community paramedicine/mobile integrated health.

Sponsored by MEDLITE® First in First Response  ----more---- Ryan Thorne, founder and CEO of Thorne Ambulance Service, talks about accountability, leadership, retention and more.

In this episode, we delve into the mistakes that can be made by making assumptions out there in the field. Everything from assuming that we received the correct information as a dispatcher or first responder from the person calling for help, to assuming we know where the road should be and that we have the correct address, to assuming the patient may have something they don’t or may have nothing w...

Firefighter-Paramedic Ryan Woodard-Fire Paramedic talks about traumatic events and how to heal from trauma.

Victoria Reinhartz, PharmD, CPh, joins the conversation on improving patient care while expanding the role pharmacists play in mobile integrated health and EMS. She provides actionable insight for EMS systems and educators.